[baddox]

> Eric Schmidt...warned of the potential of new technology to "democratise the ability to fight war"

Umm, isn't that supposedly a good thing? There's a reason that most modern governments are composed of elected representatives to make military decisions.

[magicalist]

I think that's in the sense of things like "the web will democratize publishing" by allowing anyone with a blog or twitter or a youtube channel or whatever to be a news source, writer, film publisher, etc.